The list below is work in progress. Application developers: don't worry. People are working on all of the Frameworks. "TBD" just means that no single person has been identified as the lead maintainer yet.

Name

Features

Tier

Type

Platforms

Maintainer

KItemModels

Models for Qt Model/View system

Tier 1

Addon

All Qt supported platforms

TBD

KItemViews

Widget addons for Qt Model/View

Tier 1

Addon

All Qt supported platforms

David Edmundson

KArchive

File compression

Tier 1

Addon

All Qt supported platforms

David Faure

KCodecs

Text encoding

Tier 1

Addon

All Qt supported platforms

TBD

KConfig

Configuration system

Tier 1

Addon

All Qt supported platforms

TBD

KCoreAddons

Addons to QtCore

Tier 1

Addon

All Qt supported platforms

Michael Pyne (if no one else volunteers)

KDBusAddons

Addons to QtDBus

Tier 1

Addon

All Qt supported platforms

David Faure

KF5Umbrella

CMake help to use KDE Frameworks

Tier 1

Addon

All CMake supported platforms

TBD

KGlobalAccel

Add support for global workspace shortcuts

Tier 1

Integration

KDE Workspace

TBD

KGuiAddons

Addons to QtGui

Tier 1

Addon

All Qt supported platforms

TBD

KIdleTime

Monitoring user activity

Tier 1

Integration

??

TBD

KImageFormats

Addons to QtImageFormats

Tier 1

Addon

All Qt supported platforms

Alex Merry

KJS

Support for JS scripting in applications

Tier 1

Functional

All platforms

Bernd Buschinski

KPlotting

Lightweight plotting framework

Tier 1

Addon

All Qt supported platforms

Christoph Feck

KWidgetsAddons

Addons to QtWidgets

Tier 1

Addon

All Qt supported platforms

Christoph Feck

KWindowSystem

Integration with X11 and window managers

Tier 1

Integration

X11, Windows (incomplete) and Mac OS (incomplete)

TBD

Solid

Hardware integration and detection

Tier 1

Integration

??

Alex Fiestas

Sonnet

Support for spellchecking

Tier 1

Solution

All Qt supported platforms

Martin Sandsmark

ThreadWeaver

High-level multithreading framework

Tier 1

Addon

All Qt supported platforms

Mirko Boehm

KDNSSD

Abstraction to system DNSSD features

Tier 2

Integration

??

TBD

KAuth

Abstraction to system policy and authentication features

Tier 2

Integration

??

TBD

KCompletion

Widgets with advanced auto-completion features

Tier 2

Addon

??

TBD

KCrash

Support for application crash analysis and bug report from apps

Tier 2

Integration

??

TBD

KDocTools

Documentation generation from docbook

Tier 2

Addon

All Qt supported platforms

Luigi Toscano

KI18n

Advanced internationalization framework

Tier 2

Addon

All Qt supported platforms

Chusslove Illich

KJobWidgets

Widgets for tracking KJob instances (provided by KCoreAddons)

Tier 2

Addon

All Qt supported platforms

TBD

KNotifications

Abstraction for system notifications

Tier 2

Solution

??

Martin Klapetek

KWallet

Secure and unified container for user passwords

Tier 2

Solution

All Qt supported platforms. GPG backend only available with KDE runtime.